represented the fall of the bird:
In the case of Asparagus though, I may mention,
A fall such as this, is quite out of the question:
For observe that Asparagus, fat and well fed,
Spends all of his time in the 'sparagus bed.

The Blue Mountain Lory. The Blue Morning Glory.

[Illustration: The Blue Mountain Lory. The Blue Morning Glory.]

The Insects, to avoid surprise
By Birds, sometimes themselves disguise
As leaves and twigs, and thus escape
The appetizing Insect's fate.
Observe how cleverly this Vine
Has forced its leaves and flowers to twine
Themselves into a Bird design.
And how it's artful turns and twists,
Hides it from zealous Botanists.

The Tern. The Turnip.

[Illustration: The Tern. The Turnip.]

To tell the Turnip from the Tern,
A thing which everyone should learn,
Observe the Tern up in the air,
See how he turns, and now compare
Him with this in-ert veg-et-able,
Who thus to turn is quite unable,
For he is rooted to the spot,
While as we see, the Tern is not:
He is not always doomed to be
Thus bound to earth e-_tern_-ally
For "cooked to a tern" may be inferred,
To change the Turnip to a bird.

[Illustration]

Observe the Turnip in the Pot.
The Tern is glad that he is not!

The Larks. The Larkspur.

[Illustration: The Larks. The Larkspur.]

You must not make ad-verse remarks,
About my drawing of the Larks.
For, by the minor poet's lore
The Larks--per-pet-ually soar.
While Larkspurs, bordering garden walks,
Are perched securely on their stalks.

Cross Bill. Sweet William.

[Illustration: Cross Bill. Sweet William.]

Nobody but an imbecile
Mistakes Sweet William for Cross Bill:
And even I can scarcely claim,
The skill to make them look the same.
Some other shrubs and vines and trees,
Express emotion much like these,
You've seen the mad-wort plant I guess,
And weeping willows and sigh-press,
The passion-flower, at it's climax,
The glad-iolus and the smile-ax.

The Ibis. The 'Ibiscus.

[Illustration: The Ibis. The 'Ibiscus.]

The sacred Ibis, one might say,
Was classified a "Bird-of-Pray"
His body, after death, was dried,
Embalmed in pitch, and mummyfied,
And thus was handed down to us
In some old King's sarcophagus.
The Mallow, growing in the bogs,
('Ibiscus termed by pedagogues)
Is much opposed to dessication,
And bears no